The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-03-05
POLICY OF THE PRESIDENT.
An Explanation of the Appointments of Mat
thews and Trotter.
From, the Baltimore .Stn.

speaking members of the national legislature,
holds somewhat original views respecting the
Presidents course in general, and his insis
tency on foreign colored man for District
office in particular.
The Sun correspondent called upon him
this afternoon, and was invited into a room,
where, instead of a superiority of public doc
uments, were volumes indicating that leisure
hours were spent among the thinkers and
writers on subjects which he who would be a
statesman, and not mere politician, must
study.
On the introduction of the subject of the
Presidents selection for the second time of a
colored man for recorder of deeds, he said
s'If understand the Presidents policy, he
is the least appreciated of leaders who ever
undertook the task of building up new party
on old principles, party which great civil
war and its logical events had well near to-
tally dsorganized. | can only conceive of
him as reasoning as follows: Our party has
been out of power since 1861, For a quarter
Of century it has been subjected to the ad-
verse attacks of honest criticism and the ma
lieious misrepresentation of bitter partisans.
These charges had entered so deeply into the
belief of the Northern radicals and the negro
freedmen that nothing but the ill-behavior of
the Republicans could have made temporary
dyhosts atirenough to give success to the
chambers upon typewriter. sue
Cd Twistleton and his wife were stay
tune in Norfolk, at Lady Bartsumedc
|, Twistleton was due in town to arg ge oi
great patent case concerning sewi
chimes of Buncombe and another p were
-Redf er, in the Court of Appeal, eaci'y of
a andsm morning expected hIgoIis and
S ME- Blaine the was hypoerites
sigh for the fate of the poor negro. The
strokes of Mr.. Cleveland's pen were to write
this book ofrevelations so terrible.
''But what has been his course and policy
He found a civil,service system prepared for
trial, and one which emanated from member
of the Democratic party. For upon its ulti-
mate success or failure depends the postum
nous fame Of Mr.. Pendleton he also found
a great machine of government grown into
immense dimensions, and bristting with ques-
tions unfamiliar te men who had not grown
with its growth. Therefore, in obedience to
the civil-service law and to o wise policy, he
did not apply the broom and sweep out the
public offices and fill them with new men,
whose qualifications for Office were inexper-
fence, need and party service. This answer
to the evil prophecies against him and bis
party were equally disappointing to the radi-
cal Republicans and radical Democrats.
But when wise and conservative financial
policy strengthened the credit of the country
and exhibited an effort to renew old fashioned
JeffersopiaD and Jaeksonan economy, the
most hesitating and half repentant inngwump
realized that he had made no mistaEo,
HRgt there was another question to be set
tied, another prophecy to be negatiyed, and
It was in reference to the fate of the negro.
The worst evil Of universal suffrage was the re-
sultant Of mass of voters that voted en- masse.
Ignorance chained the negro TO the triumphant
chariot of their alleged only friends.
"The carpet Bigger played on his credulity,
the kuklux khan on his fears; he vibr4tod
between blindest faith and almost infallihle
suspicion: Gan any condition for mass of
voters be more dreadful for themselves and
this country? How were they to be diseu-
thralled from the Republican yoke, which
was placed on their necks when the so. called
metaphorical chains we're struck from their
limbs: Why, by teaching them to have eon5
idenee in the Democratic party. The very
ignorant of Che South believed they were to
be re-enslaEed; the most intelligent every
where had no faith In the pledges which
bristled in every Democratic platform, state
and national. How Unjust have said the
President), shall demonstrate to these I'M
fortunate, misled people that the Democratic
element which represent is free to promise
and honest and brave to BeFfprm. With
rare political and statesmanlIke appreciation,
he said that appointments in the South would
not accomplish his object, for most Of the
negroes in that section who were at all enl-
tured were also tainted with the vices taught
by carpet baggerism. Appointments in the
North would not emphasize assurance he
wished to give these misguided people, but at
the capital he saw the old negro who had
both national and International repq tatian
holding an Office which the far sighted policy
of the Republican party had given him. tits
q Wise general who learns tactics from an en-
envy. To appoint an unknown negro to an
office made prominent by the occupancy of
Frederick Douglas was to advertise to the
colored race that those humble in its ranks
Ronld receive the saEsie recognition from the
Democratic party that its greatest representa-
tive received from the Republican, human In
gennity could not devise wiser plan for
splitting the solid phalanx of negroes and
negro worshipers than this, and the Republi-
can Senators who rejected Matthews made a
great mistake. They invited this second
nomination, this second issue, and they will
probably reject FrptteF by the same plea Of
localisul, o ground upon which they have
never before stood. On the contrary, it is
we'll known that through the whole reign of
Republicanism the District was the port of
men tossed about on the waves of political
seas, the asylum of turned-down politicians.
The whole bench was composed of importea
Judges; tho pleEkg Of the courts were brought
frpm abroad; indeed, to seek local Office
and meet defeat was for the candidate to say,
i an from the District
The very opposition Of the Sonata to this
nomination is, IN my opinion, one of the evil
dences Of its wiadom.
s'The alleged principle of localism among
the Republicans is of too new a birth for faith
to fasten to. It is the crack of the new slave
drivers whip. 1t means that they will not
suffer the negros mind and will to be free,
and they haVe gigen notise to the rage that
every negro, who acts in the role Of new or
old Democrat, is to expect nothing but perse-
eption and ostracism from the friends Of the
RAGE
These views are sent as probably those
which are held by at least one branch of the
Democratic party with which the gentleman
interviewed is in sympathy.
The wife Of Hoyt Sherman, of Des Moines,
Toxro d,ad Wadnaodav affar linuarsn0 I'll.